Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn.

A Warrant for the Punishment of the Mother and reputed Father of a Bastard-Child.

To the Constable and Borsholders of, &c.

Kent ss. WHereas A. G. of Hawkh. in* 1.1 the said County, Single wo∣man, was lately delivered within the said

Parish of a male Bastard-Child (begotten and born out of lawfull Matrimony) yet living, and chargeable to the Parish aforesaid, and so likely to continue chargeable, to the great burthen of the same Parish, and the defraud∣ing of the Relief of the impotent and aged true Poor of the Parish aforesaid, and to the evil example and encouragement of lewd life; And whereas, upon our Examination of the Cause and Circumstance, (according to the form of the Statute in that case made and pro∣vided) we have (in and by an Order by us this present day made, and subscribed under our hands, touching the Bastard-Child afore∣said) adjudged W. B. the elder, late of Hawkh. aforesaid, Broad-weaver, the reputed Father of the said Bastard-Child; And for Punish∣ment of the said Mother and reputed Father▪ (according to the form of the Statute afore∣said) we have thereby ordered, That the said Mother shall by you, some or one of you, (upon some day, between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon, in the common High-way, at or near the Watch-house at Highgate in the Parish aforesaid) be stripped naked from the middle upwards, and then and there shall be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dung-court, and being so stripped and tied, shall be there openly whipped untill her body be bloudy; and that the said reputed Father shall by you, some or one of you, (upon some day, between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon, in the common High-way in the Parish aforesaid, over against the house of I. B. there,) be stripped naked from the middle upwards, and then and there shall be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt, and being so stripped and tied, shall be from thence

drawn to the Watch-house aforesaid, and on the way well whipped in such manner as is in such cases accustomed; And that the said Mo∣ther shall, within three days next after notice of that our Order, render her body to you, some or one of you, ready to nndergo her Pu∣nishment before ordered: And that the said reputed Father shall, within six days next after notice of our said Order, render his body to you, some or one of you, ready to undergo his Punishment before ordered: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to com∣mand you and every of you, that in case the said Mother and reputed Father, or either of them, shall so render her, his, or their body or bodies to you, or any of you, as aforesaid, that then you, they or he (to whom the same shall be so rendred) do (with all convenient speed afterwards) proceed with effect to exe∣cute your, their or his office according to the faid purport of the Order aforesaid, and do execute the same accordingly; And that what is done in the premisses, you, or one of you, do (with all convenient speed, after the afore∣said, &c. day of, &c.) make known unto us, or one of us, to the end that in case of failer by him or her of rendring his or her body to you or one of you, (according to the said Or∣der) such farther proceedings may be there∣upon had as to Justice doth appertain. Here∣of fail not at your perils. Given under our hands and seals at Hawkh. aforesaid the first day of May, 1672.

Notes

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  18 Eliz. cap. 3. 2 Iustices, 1 of the Quorum.